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  1. Re:So let's change the algorithm. on Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Correct: the attack here is:

    Take big Site with thousands of user, many using thier (sorta) "real names".
    Permute these names with some known big email provider hostnames.
    Send them all some spam.

    It does not really matter if 90% of those emailadresses are incorrect, the rest will hit.

    I would not do the MD5 validation thing, why should I?

  2. Re:Extensions security? on Google Chrome Extensions Are Now Available · · Score: 1

    "Uhh, I don't read the text, by the time I notice the popup, and notice that it does not go away by itself, but blocks everything else, the OK button is working."
    (this is like my dad, or something, you know.....)

  3. Re:friend/foe indicator on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1

    Ehhh, that's not a space in the class name, it means: "please apply both class rules to this span"

  4. Re:Get a Mac on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    That's exactly the way I did it, I stopped sopprting windows for _any one_ in 2002. It was way better afterwards.
    Questions about windwows only get a "yeah that sure sucks when it happens, doesn't it....." answer.

    My wife,her mom and my sister all switched to ubuntu (allthough in 2006), I spezificaly told them only to use software installed with sysnaptic. "You don't want anything else"

    Works very good.

  5. Re:Give Up on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    He did not bill his sister but his sisters company.
    Face it, shes making money with his knowledge, so why not.

    This was a problem with her companies qmail installation, not a "Why doesn't word make words bold anymore?"

  6. Re:I think that on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 1

    obl.

    "I knew a guy who camped once, he died"

    http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000612

  7. Re:I think that on iPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering · · Score: 1

    I don't care about what people think when they see me connecting my iPhone to my Mac Book Air.
    (Yes, I have more money then I can spend until the end of the month, sowhat?)
    Back on topic: I upgraded to 3.1 but tethering is still enabled.
    I did enable it on OS 3.0 by downloading a profile here:

    http://help.benm.at/

    It just works (tm)

  8. Re:Simpsons trading cards on Is Battery-Free 2-Factor ID Secure? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Do we have to bring this up over and over again on Best Home Backup Strategy Now? · · Score: 1

    Pfff, a full backup of my fotolibrary (17Gig) to my rackserver takes about 2-3 Days,
    incrementals are done in minutes, or 2 Hours max (daily increments)
    Hardly time to get to old, but good for me, for not getting to much gray hair.

    DSL with good upload rates are not really expensive here in germany.

  10. Re:Not good enough. on 6 Pennsylvania Teens Face Child Porn Charges For Pics of Selves · · Score: 1

    While you're at it,

    <caps>

    "This Thread Is WORTHLESS Without Pics!"

    </caps comment="damn lamensss filter" >

    (someone had to say it)

  11. Re:Not so fast there old chap! on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 1

    So in theory there should no risk.... hmmmm

    The difference between theory and practice is
    that in theory there is no difference,
    but in practice, there is.

  12. Re:Amazon S3 on Long-Term Personal Data Storage? · · Score: 1

    Don't write these scripts yourself,
    tools like duplicity: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
    bring S3 as a target out of the box.

  13. Re:Awful article on Which OS Performs Best With SSDs? · · Score: 1

    We only use the metric system around here,
    you insensitive clod!

  14. Re:Why... on D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    You forgot the step between 2 and 3:

      Step 3: ...
      Step 4: Profit!

    See?

  15. Re:Too much attention to entertainers on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    ummm, nobody said the romans invented all that,
    it's just that they brought it to the jews, and many other people.

  16. Re:Requirements/Trade-offs on In IE8 and Chrome, Processes Are the New Threads · · Score: 1

    So theory vs. reality vs. scale. There's no "one true" answer.

    Damn! I read all replies until down here,
    and now you tell my there is no real answer?

    I'm going back to DIGG

    Huibert

  17. Re:PS3 on Blu-ray Gone In Five Years, Samsung Claims · · Score: 1

    Don't want to spoil your world view, but 1500kbps is pretty mediocure here in germany, 6Mbps ist pretty standart, and 15 25 35 only cost slightly more.

  18. Re:Great work on Django 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Should not be to hard kill all three of them.

    A language is alive as long as it is in use.
    Killing the developers would help with killing the language, but it would still take time, look at cobol for an example.

  19. Re:How to advocate free software on A Bare-Bones Linux+Mono+GUI Distro? · · Score: 1

    yeah,

    but it would also make /. a prety boring place, wouldn't it?

    Wasn't there a thread a few weeks ago about no single /. thread being complete without a Microsoft bashing?

  20. Re:*snicker* on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ofcourse they were suprised to find these references in the code,
    because "nobody expects the spanish inqusition!"

  21. Re:stupid summary on Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets · · Score: 1

    That's not a funny, that's insightfull!

  22. Re:Wow, it really works on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 1

    Well,
    as far as these guys at the university I attended goes,
    these someones allways qualify both assumpsions,

  23. Re:Auto upbreak. on Vista Service Pack 1 Is Out · · Score: 1

    What is all this "defragging helps" stuff people keep telling each other.

    AFAIK defragging is a thing of the past, modern filesystems (even NTFS) keep itself defragged pretty good.
    Defragging a drive with 8% fragmatation is not really going to help you in a real life scenrario.

    Just like the good old "rebuild your indexes often to keep them fast" on Oracle,
    it's gone since at least Oracle 8, but I still here it as advice from time to time.

    see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defrag under Myths

    It's a nice hobby to keep your system at top speed, but it is not really necesary,
    unless your drive is fileld to the brim.

  24. Re:Happy pi day everyone!! on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    3 words: eta beta pie

    (Revenge of the nerds)

    Wow, and in this thread, it's on topic!

  25. Re:Been there... on Tools For Understanding Code? · · Score: 1

    > Therefore, we said, code simply (Particularly your own stuff,
    > you may have to support it later.).
    > If you are trying to do more than one thing on a line - DON'T.

    Yes, I know, but my supervisor is convinced that everythink should be coded to run as fast as possible.
    "What, you create a new MyBlahObject for every time a page is rendered in this web application?
    That are a lot of unneccesary cpu cycles, you should use caching or apply the singleton pattern."

    I tried to bring the "premature optimisation is the root of all evil" reasoning,
    and that the the code would be better readable and maintainable when it is less speed optimzed.
    But, that's nonses, put in a few comments, than everything will be clear.

    Nowadays, I just do less coding, and start to go into project management, pays of better anyways.